The German Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld saved around 60 Poles, including many Jews such as the pianist Władysław Szpilman, from death during the Second World War. In the Dachau Church of Reconciliation, his daughter Jorinde Krejci has now told her father’s story.
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Walter Gierlich, Dachau
“What is the meaning of this terrible war?” This question – topical again today – was asked by the German Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld in the fall of 1939, a few weeks after the invasion of Poland. He wrote down the question in a diary, from which his daughter Jorinde Krejci, born in 1932, read on Tuesday in the Church of Reconciliation on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp memorial. About 50 visitors came to the concert reading on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Hosenfeld’s death, who died on August 13, 1952 at the age of 57.